3 papers
econ.GN2026
Trimming of extreme votes and favoritism: Evidence from the field
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
Despite a large body of theoretical literature on voting mechanisms, there is no documented evidence from real-world panel evaluations about the effect of trimming the extreme vote…
econ.GN2025
Varying reference-point salience
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
The salience of reference points may theoretically influence the loss aversion mechanism in effort provision. However, we still lack a direct test from real competitive settings th…
math.AP2025
Convergence to the planar interface for a nonlocal free-boundary evolution
Felix Otto, Richard Schubert, Maria G. Westdickenberg
We capture optimal decay for the Mullins-Sekerka evolution, a nonlocal, parabolic free boundary problem from materials science. Our main result establishes convergence of BV soluti…